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Old 02-12-2014, 06:06 AM   #157
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Originally Posted by MikeB1972 View Post
Actually all format shifting will be legal as long as you do not break DRM - Well, TPM (technological protection measures, a superset of DRM) to be exact.
So it will be legal to format shift your book (While still being completely illegal for someone like 1 dollar scan to do it for you)
Do you think, though, that scanning a paper book constitutes "format shifting"? It seems unlikely to me. I would regard format shifting as moving from one digital medium to another - ripping a CD, or converting a book from Mobi to ePub format.
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